For automatic unloading of soft-drink pack carriers form boxes, and
depositing same into the carrier-magazine of a packaging machine. The
carrier box is loaded into a bucket, from a full-box-conveyor. The bucket
is pivotable, and is overturned to enable the box to be extracted from the
bucket, leaving the carriers inside. The bucket is pivoted in a cradle,
and the cradle is carried in a bucket-elevator, and the bucket can undergo
up/down movements on the elevator. Because of the elevator, the box
conveyors can be overhead, out of the way of the magazine into which the
carriers are to be transferred.
